Bill Text: NY A01853 | 2025-2026 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to establishing a procedure for the governor's annual message to the legislature regarding the state of the state.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2025-01-29 - opinion referred to judiciary [A01853 Detail]

Download: New_York-2025-A01853-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          1853

                               2025-2026 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    January 14, 2025
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        Introduced  by M. of A. STECK -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Governmental Operations

                    CONCURRENT RESOLUTION OF THE SENATE AND ASSEMBLY

        proposing an amendment to section 3 of article 4 of the constitution, in
          relation to establishing a procedure for the governor's annual message
          to the legislature regarding the state of the state

     1    Section 1. Resolved (if the Senate concur), That section 3 of  article
     2  4 of the constitution be amended to read as follows:
     3    §  3.  The  governor  shall  be commander-in-chief of the military and
     4  naval forces of the state. The governor shall have power to convene  the
     5  legislature, or the senate only, on extraordinary occasions. At extraor-
     6  dinary  sessions  convened pursuant to the provisions of this section no
     7  subject shall be acted upon, except such as the governor  may  recommend
     8  for  consideration.  The  governor  shall  communicate by message to the
     9  legislature at every session the condition of the state,  and  recommend
    10  such  matters to it as [he or she] the governor's shall judge expedient.
    11  The message shall be delivered orally in the  Assembly  Chamber,  during
    12  the first week of legislative session, with a quorum of the Assembly and
    13  a  quorum  of  the  Senate present. The governor shall expedite all such
    14  measures as may be resolved upon by the legislature, and shall take care
    15  that the laws are faithfully executed.  The governor shall  receive  for
    16  [his  or  her]  the  governor's services an annual salary to be fixed by
    17  joint resolution of the senate and assembly, and there shall be provided
    18  for [his or her] the governor's use a suitable and  furnished  executive
    19  residence.
    20    §  2. Resolved (if the Senate concur), That the foregoing amendment be
    21  referred to the first regular legislative session  convening  after  the
    22  next  succeeding  general  election  of members of the assembly, and, in
    23  conformity with  section  1  of  article  19  of  the  constitution,  be
    24  published for 3 months previous to the time of such election.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD89038-01-5